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Photo Doesn't Make Me a Slut: Meghan McCain

Overreaction part of 'infuriating' double standard on racy pix

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 16, 2009 2:53 PM CDT

(Newser) – Meghan McCain can’t believe the “immediate and nasty overreaction” to her post of a “funny and silly” self-portrait. She admits that posting a photo showing off her cleavage “is not the smartest thing I have ever done. But it’s just not worth the drama it caused”—and shows some ugly truths about how society treats the female body.

"For years I have struggled to accept the fact that the way I look in a tank top comes off more 'sexual' than a flat-chested woman,” McCain writes for the Daily Beast. “And once again I was reassured by the media that someone with my cup size should always be covered up.” Congressmen Aaron Schock and Jeff Flake take shirtless photos and are called “hotties.” “But put me in a tank top and I am suddenly an embarrassment to the Republican Party and women everywhere. The double standard is infuriating.”

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Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, arrives at Perez Hilton's 31st Birthday Party in West Hollywood, Calif. on Saturday, March 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

This photo of Meghan McCain is causing quite a stir. (Twitpic)

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It’s not like I was caught making a sex tape. I certainly didn’t pose nude for Playboy. And I hadn’t even exposed a nipple.
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Nov 3, 2009 12:26 AM CST

Megan Megan Megan , what can one say ? You're....... All your brains have sunk into your boobsl

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Oct 18, 2009 7:52 AM CDT

As American as apple pie. Beaver Cleaver loves clevage. I wonder if she lactates when a baby is near her. She may be able to wet nurse. This may give her a platform for addressing mothers about the power of clevage in lowering the national debt. " If you nurse your babies now..they will be ready to lead tomorrow and make wise fiscal decisions."

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Oct 18, 2009 7:09 AM CDT

There is a movement for equal rights for women. Men can go topless and they want the same rights. They have rallys yearly to make this point. A Judge in Mass. threw out a case where a woman was sued for mowing her lawn toplesss by her female neighbor. There is a war going on over this. The women are saying " War is indecent not my breasts." There was a time when it was considered indecent for men to go topless at the beach. I do not hear the women calling us sluts. Mark my words...The Female Breast will be much more prevalent in public life in the near future. They go topless, if they want to at the International Womens Festival. Female Heads of State attend that festival. Condeleeza Rice spoke at that festival when she was Secretary of State. I do not think that Bill will let Hillary go to the International Womens Festival. She should let them fly in the breeze and watch the intellectuals faint as the blood from their brains suddenly flows to their lower head preventing all rational thought from happening.

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Photo Doesn't Make Me a Slut: Meghan McCain